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Malaria Germs cannot survive '
three months in the rich ozone
at Ashland. The pure domestic
water helps.
VOLUME 2
(Successor
to
T idings
ASHLAND DAILY
the Semi- Weekly Tidings.
ASHLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH 18,
Vol. 43.)
Ashland climate without the aid
of Medicine, cures nine cases out
of ten of Asthma,
This is a I
proven fact.
1921
FORCES MEDICINE CLARA HAMON PLANS
SOLDIERS QUIT
LIFE OF ATONEMENT BORDER BATTLE
ON SON: IS SHOT
(By the United rress)
PORTLAND, Mar, 18—Surgeons at
the Good Smaritan hospital today
have momentarily expected the death
of Mrs. John Serata, who was shot
three times last night by her 17-year-
old son when she attempted to force
him to take a spoonful of medicine.
The shooting occured at the Serata
home in Oregon City, where the boy,
Adam .is now in the county jail. He
will be charged with first degree
murder if his mother dies.
HOLD STATE.
CONVENTION Students Hear
DRAG RIVER
FOR BODY OF
EDITOR’S NOTE—Clara Smith !
Hamon. acquitted yesterday of the
charge of killing Jake L. Hamon,
' has written the following message
for the United Press:
ONE DEAD,
3 DYING IN
AUTO WRECK
(By the United Press)
, EL PASO. Texas, Mar. 18—A bat-
tie between Mexican smugglers, Uni-
ted States soldiers-and immigration
authorities across the Rio Grande
near here was quieted early today
after a night of tiring. Two Ameri­
cans were wounded. The Mexicans'
are believed to have suffered some
' casualties.
The battle, in which scores of shots
were exchanged, started shortly af-.
i ter midnight, when American immi
gration guards surprised a group of
Mexicans wading across the river, it
;
GOVERNOR
SUPPORTS
POLL TAX
By CLARA HAMON
(Copyright 1921, by United Press) •
ARDMORE. Okla., Mar. 18—“I
giaEg
sgemmmstart in life anew with the scarlet
letter of shame branded on my breast.
But I start out with the determina-
tion to show the world that an erring
woman can come back. It has been
said that the world never forgives a
( By the Unitea Press)
was believed
smugglers were
,
(By the United Press)
woman who makes one mistake in
SPOKANE, Wash., Mar. 18—One rying a load of liquor and drugs.
KALAMA, Wash., Mar. 18—Search- life, and that society will never take
The Mexicans opened fire, then re-4. OLYMPIA, Wash., Mar. 18—Indi
(By the United Press)
unidentified girl is dead and three
ers are dragging the Columbia river her back into the fold. If I believed
--
4.5:. own side.
cations that Governor Hart intends
are dying, the result of a wild joy' timed tc
to their
SALEM. Mar. 18—The state con- I
for the body of Fred L. Stewart,
that, the liberty given me by the jury ride today, when a high powered car,
A rifle fire started immediately . to sign the poll-tax bill passed at the
vention of the Daughters of the
Dean John A. Bexell of the O. A. |--------
cashier of the
- - Kelso State Bank, who
American Revolution opened this C., who delivered an address to the is. supposed to have leaped tb his would not be sweet to me, but would going at 50 miles an hours crashed | from the Mexican side from aides of recent session of the legislature were
Into a »tree car. Driver Charles Hea-the smugglers along the river. A de- contained in a letter from the gover-
morning. Several hundred delegates! High school today, spoke on "Hid-death from the ferryboat Queen last be as bitter as hemlock
“I know the world will be sympa- die was arrested tor drunkeness. The tachment from the 48th Infantry was nor to John Cormode of Seattle, who
are here. The hall of representatives I den Assets,” which was received with night, just after the bank was dos­
tbetic
with me, believing I am a de- injured are:
is used as headquarters and is con-much enthusiasm by the student ed on order of the state banking de-
Vera Lindberg, Elsie rushed to the scene from El Paso had protested against the measure
generate
woman.
I
am
going
through
Garvin
and
John
Hampton,
| when the American guards appeal- receiving executive approval. After
verted into a palace ol (lowers and body.
The school is the breeding partment.
reviewing the history of the increase
life with my head up, knowing now |
ed for assistance.
emblems.
place of ideals, was the leading theme
in the general fund tax in this state,
|
I
can
look
every
man
and
woman
in
-Memorial services were conducted of Dean Benell’» address, and he
the
governor’s letter says:
the
eye,
unashamed.
With
this
spirit
by Mrs. W. A. Smyk, the state caap-1 claims that ideals are the only thing
‘
This
$5 poll tax is equivalent to
I know I can win, and I have willed
lain, today.
SQUIRRELS ON OREGON
that multiply by division
i to win.
about a 3-mill tax levy, or. in other
STATE CAPITOL GROUNDS
’ •“There are hidden assets in all owr
words, is suffcient to take care of the
"I plan to leave for California with
institutions,” Dean Bexell remarked. I
(By the United Press)
entire general tax funds of the state.
| my brother, Jimmy, and there, under I
“There are hidden assets in our com-
SALEM. Mar. 18—Imported east- This tax is paid by all the people,
I a new’sky, and in different surround-j
munity that we are not making use
ern gray squirrels, brought all the | whether they own property or not.
ings, will map out my future. But
of.
We often hunt from place to
way from Harrisburg. Pa., are scam-1 and probably more than the eq uiva
I am coming back to Ardmore and
place to find an ideal or an individual
pering over the beautiful grounds of lent of a 1-mill tax levy will be paid
the southwest—I want to be right
only to find later that we had them
the state capitol.
by roving persons who never cun
here among the people I know and
righ at home.
More shipments are to follow The tribute one dollar Io the expense of
“The High school is an asset to the
being brought
squirrels
government and yet who cost the
Chamber of Commerce, aad should bei
Captain A. E. Burghduff. state game government more in police and health
considered a Junior Chamber of
regulations than do all the property
SAN FRANCISCO, Mar. 18—Treas
Commerce,” the speaker further con-
(By the United Press)
Local humorists suggest that the owners of the state. It seems to me
tended, and he related many ways in
CHICAGO. Mar 18—Representes M hi Illi V I III I j
¡ury department
animals may be more or less hungry|wi ping orr all general fund tax levs
I eral reserve bank of San Francisco until
......... the next .................
which the Junior Chamber of Com-tives of the principal grain growing
legislature meets.
from your
will make your
show
a
total
of
$3,143,150
worth
of
merce
may
aid
in
bettering
and
de-states
will
meet
here
April
6
to
con-
(By the United Press)
| poll tax a mighty good investment.
treasury savings securities. such as
CHICAGO, Mar. 18—An unknown veloping the community. His remarks| sider the American Farm Bureau
“I can understand why a man who
25 cent thrift stamps. $1 treasury I
man was killed and a detective was and ideas were enthusiastically re-Federation's co-operative grain mar-
j has no property, but who stands
savings stamps, $5 war savings
wounded in a three-hour gun.battle reived by the school.
| keting plan.
around on the street corner and
stamps and treasury savings certifi-
between the man and 50 policemen,
,
State meetings will select delega-
i cusses the government, well can af-
"NO HICKS IX HICKSVILLE
cates in denominations of $25. $100
this morning.
tes to the Chicago gathering. Farm
gD i ford to condemn the poll tax, but it
HICKSVILLE. N
| and $1000. sold during February This
.—Since old j bureau members will be invited to at-
seems to me that a poll tax, when
| total represents a considerable in­
<s> .606099090989. man Hicks, the Quaker, bestowed his tend.
once in good working order- and it
•
moniker
on
this
man's
town
it
has
crease
over
the
sale
of
these
securi
­
4. SAX FRANCISCO MARKETS
The “improved grain marketin
§A
Ore..
Mar.
Captain
should
be by the next session of the
. found its chief claim to fame as a"
ties through post offices and banks
plan” creates a “national sales agen-
Anthony, whose parents re-legislature—will justify a constitu-
during January, and is in excess of .
vaudeville joke.
Hicksvillians havecy' controlled by the membership,
Ironside.
Malheur county. has tional amendment which would per
(Special to The Tidings)
I the amount sold in June. 1 920.
decided to call a halt. They 11 have The agency will control terminals,!
in
New
York,
after an excit-: mit of an exemption of from $1000
arrived
SAN FRANCISCO, Mar. 18—Fol a village dinner soon, with Theo-warehouses, export, finances and ser-
Reports from all parts of the Uni-
to $2000 in assessed value of the
lowing are market-quotations;
ted States to the treasury depa rt ment ing trip through the wilds of South
dore Roosevelt and Lieut. Governor vice departments and is organized on
(By the United Press)
Ecuador and other South American honest-to-goodness homes of the
BUTTER—39c.
Jeremiah Wood present, to discuss aa non-stock, non-profit basis.
Its
HELSINGFORS, Mar. 18—A com-1 indicate that the public is turning
state."
EGGS—31c.
more dignified name for the town, purpose is to shorten the road from | píete surrender of the Russion revo-with favor to these small. guaranteed regions with George K. Cherris, the
HENS—37@39c.
The new slogan is, I here are no consumer to producer and eliminates, lutionaries at Kronstadt is reported securities *of the government. The explorer, in the interests of the Amer-
ican Museum of Natural History. • $$00006400296
BROILERS—65 a 68c.
hicks in Hicksville.
____
charges the farmer believes exces-j today. The revolutionarries surren- telegram from Washington announ
WEATHER FORECAST.
More than 3500 specimens
dered, following a heavy assult by ng the February sales said that the
sive.
birds
and
mammals
were
secured
|
For
Oregon—Occasional rain.
the Bolsheviki troops, who marched ; treasury expected to sell $3,553 .000
during their eight-months’ journey. 00000009090060996
over the ice. Koslovski, the Czarish of the securities during March
general who headed the revolt is re-1
| ported having crossed the Finish
coast with eighteen hundred soldiers.!
DAAL (1 (IL D
LIA |.U\|||| ||
DII fl*l Viivi ILI
car-
the
interesting Talk
P. UCdll
D23R —
RavAll
Dy
A--
(AIA gnO
I-III -HIWFK
JIIIIV UUIILIIU
MAN SHOT IN
BATTLE WITH
50 POLIC
GOVERNMENT
SECURITIES
ON INCREASE
WILL ... CONFER
nruann
Ini I "Ulf 1 A IH I
IN unlbAbU
(DANOT A T
reports to the ted-
YIELDS TO
BOLSHEVIK
Idle Million Menace
To Great Britain^^ LEG
KILLS MAN STATE
ROADS GET
TEN MILLIONS
EXPLORER BACK
[Q| I A
I LUUOUII
I il IAIII IK Ì
fs
DINING CAR ' 6 Proposals
to
Be
• H g "
•
Voted
on
in
June
PRICES CUT
By AUSTIN WEST
latter are chiefly made up of cotton
(United Press Staff Correspondent) operators and government employ-
LONDON—( By Mail)—According ees at dockyards .etc.
SALEM, Mar. 17—All measures, motor bus, transporting or carrying
1
to figures just issued by the Minis­
Optimistic officials of the Ministry
(By the United Press)
constitutional amendments and reso-passengers, freight or any commodity
try of Labor, there are 1,153,300 of Labor believe the peak has been
TACOMA, Wash., Mar. 18—John
lutions
referred to the voters at the'or merchandise for which a charge is
registered unemployed in Britain— reached, but the labor members of.. ...
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I
WASHINGTON, Mar. 18—Approxi-
SAN FRANCISCO, Mar. IS—All
, ,
McMahon died ot a wooden leg.
recent
session
of the legislature, a made.
and they are still climbing.
parliament lean to the i t ief that
, .
,.
... q
This is the assertion ot Private S. f mately $662,000,000 is available for western railroads have agreed to a total of six, will go on the ballot at
An appropriation of $20,000 au
The unemployed barometer has the situation will be decidedly worse!
M. Barrett, military policeman, to road and bridge construction and (general red uction in diniing cat men the special election scheduled for ; thorized by the last legislature fur
taken several big jumps during the before the turn is reached. Realizing I
thecivil authorities following Me- maintenance this year, the bureau of us, ranging from 15 to 25 per cent, June 7, according to I. H. Van Win-carrying on the work of the state
last few months. At the middle of this the government is grappling with
child welfare commission will be
Mahon’s death in General hospital public roads of the department ot it was announced here by the South- kle, attorney-general.
October the number of men and wo- the problem of the primary object
as a resulf of a fracas with Barrett. | agriculture announces.
ern Pacific company.
These include the measures author- ' available after May 25, 1921, the
men registered at the Employment of stemming the tide.
Among the approximate amounts
According to Barrett and other
The following specific instances Of izing the state to use its credit to the date oh which the law becomes et-
Exchanges was 350,000; by the mid-
So far the government has been
witnesses, McMahon, drunk, was us­ given as available to each state from lowered prices were cited
extent of 3 per cent, based on the tective, according a third opinion
die of November it was 473,000; by I chiefly concerned in efforts to ab-
ing abusive language in a local bowl­ local, state and federal sources were:
Eggs. 35 to 30 cents; ham and j valuation of all assessable property
Relative to the appointment
the middle of December 582,000; by sorb tens of thousands of ex-service
ing alley.
When Barrett made a California. $26,000,000; Idaho, $4,- eggs, 70 to 65 rents; grape fruit, 30 | for the payment of the so-called sol- judges and clerks constituting the so
the middle of January 842,000, and men into the industrial fabric by pro-
move to eject him, McMahon dodged, 500,000; Montana, $8.5 0 0,0 0 0; Ne-to 2 5 cents; fruits 3 5 to 3 0 cents dier bonus, mental ad physical ex- called counting election boards ap
now they are well over the million paganda and appeals to employers. .
.
.
.
12
.
I .
failed to catch his balance on his vada, $3,500,000; Oregon. $10.0 0 0 steak, $1.40 to $1.25; chops. 45 to. amination of all persons applying for proved at the recent legislative as
mark.
The unexpected avalance of unem-
.
.
, lt
,
...
,
....
! wooden leg, fell and fractured his i 000; Washington, $14',000,000, and 40 cents; certain styles of potatoes, {marriage licenses, jury service for sembly, the attorney-general said:
These tigures do not take into ac-ployment of all classes, however, has
1 Wyoming, $3,000,000.
20 to 15 cents.
“It is my opinion that in precincts
count the thousands of unemployed | made it imperative to create state- | skull.
women, 60 days’ session of the legis-
where
appointments were made last
i
tature
and
increasing
the
compensa-
who have not registered at the gov- aided schemes. These were explain-!
January
the law as amended will be
tion of legislators from $3 to $5 a
ernment bureau. If these were in- i ed by the Minister of Labor, Dr. |
day, and single item veto by the go - I effective at the June election, but that
eluded, it is estimated that the num-1 Macnamara.
’ the precincts for which such appoint-
ernor.
ber would be swelled to a million and
According to Macnamara, at least
another
menta were not made in
The attorney-general in
a quarter. Nor are they inclusive of 70.000 men have been found employ-
opinion given to the secretary of 1921, cannot avail themselves of the
the people working on systematic
state, held that chauffeur, under the provisions of the amendment for the
short time .estimated at 600.000. The
(Continued on Page Four)
HELLO - HELLO - TH MISTER
existing laws, applies to all persons reason that no means of appointin
operating a motor vehicle, whether additional judges prior to next Jan-
SFORK 3-5AY HOW ABOUT
!
it be a motor truck, touring car oruary is afforded'
THAT BABY GIRL I ORDERE
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• Spring Deliveries
Harding May Revive
State Functions
to act as hostess at a number of gar-
WASHONGTON, Mar. 17—Social den parties during the spring, there-
and diplomatic Washington looks for by restoring one of the favorite forms|
a revival, under President and Mrs. of entertainments of former days.
Harding, of the formal state dinners
Likewise, it is expected (hat she
and other social functions at the will entertain at teas, her guests in-
White House, which ceased with the eluding intimate friends and the
entrance of the United States into wives of the members of the diplo-
mafic corps,
the World war.
Another social cus-
Directions from Mr. Harding for tom that she may revive is the reg
abandonment of the official social ular weekly “at home” to wives of
events incident to his inauguration cabinet members, a function in past
corresponding
in
were conceded by those hoping for administrations
a return to a social normalcy to be time with the regular Tuesday cabi-
;• blow to their expectations, but thenet meetings.
It is also reported
recent shopping trip made by Mrs. that she will restore the custom of
Harding to New York city and other Marine band concerts on the White,
events have renewed their optimism. House grounds.
Whether the President and Mrs. |
In preparation for the arrival of
the new first lady of the land, the Harding will revive the state din-i
White House had been redecorated, ners remains to be developed. Four i
and the furnishings renewed.
Mrs. of these are usually given each sea­
Harding has requested that addition­ son, one to the cabinet, one to the
al flowers be planted around the diplomatic corps, one to the judiciary
White House, Her friends expect her and one to congressional leaders.
PLUE EYES, GDLDEN-HAIR—
ETC, ETC j—_ _ _
Movement Started to
|
Have a Boys’ Band
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Carl Loveland, who recently re-’sed as to organizing this band. Those
instruments
turned to Ashland to reside after an who already
absence of several years, has already I asked to bring them, and those who
put in motion activities regarding have none may specify at this meei-
musical or anizations in the city. Mr. ing their choice in instruments, and
well known and express their wishes to secure one.
Loveland
No restrictions will be placed on
popular band leader when he was a ,
resident of this city before, and he the age of the members of this band,
is now arranging to organize the var- as it is Mr. Loveland’s intention to
ious musical people of Ashland into take boys of any age and drill them
bands in .order that plenty of music into proficient band players. There
will be one of the drawing features are without doubt many who belong
| for the summer’s entertainments.
to Mr. Lovelands’ band in past years
Mr. Loveland hasa project in view ¡who by this time have attained the
to organize a boy's band which will ¡years of manhood, and Mr. Loveland
fill a long felt need in this city. For would like them to also appear at this
this purpose he has called all par- meeting, when a place can probably
ents who desire to have their boys be arranged for them in the men’s
enter such a musical organization to baud. It is Mr. Lovelands’ hope and
meet him in the city hall next Mon-, intention to form a band of boys
day evening at 7 o’clock, or send their who will be second to none in South-
■children, when plans will be discus- ern Oregon.